Methanohalobium Explained

In taxonomy, Methanohalobium is a genus of the Methanosarcinaceae.^[1] Its genome has been sequenced.^[2] The genus contains one species, M. evestigatum.

The species are strictly anaerobic and live solely through the production of methane through the reduction of carbon dioxide with hydrogen or using methyl compounds as substrates. These species are only somewhat halophilic but extremely thermophilic.^{[3] [4]}

See also

• List of Archaea genera

Further reading

• Springer E . Sachs MS . Woese CR . Boone DR . 1995 . Partial gene sequences for the A subunit of methyl-coenzyme M reductase (mcrI) as a phylogenetic tool for the family Methanosarcinaceae . Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. . 45 . 554 - 559 . 8590683 . 10.1099/00207713-45-3-554 . 3. free .
• Zhilina . T. N. . G. A. Zavarzin . 1987 . [''Methanohalobium evestigatus'', n. gen., n. sp. The extremely halophilic methanogenic Archaebacterium] . . 293 . 464 - 468 .
• Sowers KR . Johnson JL . Ferry JG . 1984 . Phylogenic relationships among the methylotrophic methane-producing bacteria and emendation of the family Methanosarcinaceae . Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. . 34 . 444 - 450 . 10.1099/00207713-34-4-444 . 4 . free .
• Balch WE . Fox GE . Magrum LJ . Woses CR . 4 . Wolfe RS . 1979 . Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group . Microbiol. Rev. . 43 . 260 - 296 . 390357 . 2 . 281474 . 10.1128/MMBR.43.2.260-296.1979.

External links

• Methanohalobium at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Methanohalobium. Data extracted from the Web site: NCBI taxonomy resources . . 2007-03-19.
2. Web site: Info - Methanohalobium evestigatum Z-7303 . 2012-03-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150630091648/http://genome.jgi-psf.org/metev/metev.info.html . 2015-06-30 . dead .
3. Book: Koki Horikoshi. Garabed Antranikian. Alan T. Bull. Frank T. Robb. Karl O. Stetter. Extremophiles Handbook. Springer Science and Business Media. 2010-12-08. 2016-08-07. 260. 978-4431538974.
4. Book: The Prokaryotes. Stanley Falkow. Eugene Rosenberg. Karl-Heinz Schleifer. Erko Stackebrandt. 3. 246. Springer Science and Business Media. 0387254935. 2006-10-10. 2016-08-07.